Re: wajig broken in unstable?

From: Graham Williams (Graham.Williams_at_togaware.com)
Date: 06/29/05

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    Received Wed 29 Jun 2005 8:43pm +1000 from Clive Menzies:
    > On (29/06/05 11:09), Anthony Campbell wrote:
    > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
    > > From: Anthony Campbell <ac@acampbell.org.uk>
    > > Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 11:09:18 +0100
    > > Subject: Re: wajig broken in unstable?
    > >
    > > On 29 Jun 2005, Graham Williams wrote:
    > > > Received Wed 29 Jun 2005 7:39pm +1000 from Anthony Campbell:
    > > > > I found that wajig disappeared here after an update to unstable a couple
    > > > > of days ago and attempts to reintall it are greeted with the message
    > > > > that it has unmet dependencies and I should file a bug report. However,
    > > > > bug reporting seems to be failing on Debian at present.
    > > > >
    > > > > Not sure what is happening here.
    > > >
    > > > Hi Anthony. Any more specific details? What is it dependent on that is
    > > > failing? I presume you might be using sarge (stable) and have upgraded
    > > > to unstable? Did you use wajig to do this?
    > > >
    > > > Regards,
    > > > Graham
    > > >
    > >
    > > No, I've been following unstable for many months. In fact, I discovered
    > > that synaptic and aptitude had also been removed, but I've reinstalled
    > > those without problems. I've been using wajig routinely for some time.
    > >
    > > The message I get now is:
    > >
    > >
    > > Reading package lists... Done
    > > Building dependency tree... Done
    > > Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
    > > requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
    > > distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
    > > or been moved out of Incoming.
    > >
    > > Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
    > > the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
    > > that package should be filed.
    > > The following information may help to resolve the situation:
    > >
    > > The following packages have unmet dependencies:
    > > wajig: Depends: python-apt but it is not going to be installed
    > > E: Broken packages
    >
    > I'm coming in late on this. Aptitude threatened to remove itself here
    > (sid) during the last couple of upgrades because apt and apt-utils were
    > being upgraded but aptitude is dependant on the currently installed
    > version; so I held apt and apt-utils.
    >
    > I suspect that you're seeing this behaviour because you've upgraded
    > these to 0.6.38 but synaptic/aptitude depend on 0.5.28.6.
    >
    > You could downgrade these two packages manually to rectify the problem
    > perhaps?
    >
    > Regards
    >
    > Clive

    Thanks for the information. Looks like the apt upgrade is breaking a
    few dependencies. I am getting the same problem now! I'll have a look
    to see what needs to be done for wajig. As suggested, downgrading apt
    and apt-util and then putting them on hold might allow wajig to be
    reinstalled.

    Regards,
    Graham 

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